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- CORSET FASTENING- Q No. 352,714. Patented Nov. 16, 1886.

WITNESSES: I INVENTOR:

' BY vdmm ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Louis SANDERS, on NEW YORK, Assrcnon TO ELIZA SANDERS, or

- BROOKLYN, N. Y.

CORSET-FASTENING.

QPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352.714, dated November 16, 1886.

Application filed September 8, 1886. Serial No. 212,997. (No model.) I

This invention relates to metallic 'loop-fastenings adapted to engage with buttons or studs for the purpose ofattaching two adjacent parts of an article together,or independent pieces or articles to each other.

WVhile applicable to other purposes or uses,

- the invention is moreparticularly intended to be used on corsetsteels for closing and open-' ing the two sections of the corset down the front, and theinventiou will here be described more especially with reference to such use. I

The invention consists in a metallic spring loop-fastening, substantially as hereinafter described ,and pointed out in the claims, whereby not only is its engagement with the button made more secure and the fastening can be readily engaged and disengaged, but when used as a corset-fastening there will be no liability of its accidental engagement again when taking the corset off by releasing one fastening at a time, as is such a common annoy.- ance to ladies wearing corsets the steels of which are provided with metallic key-hole fastenings.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal faceview of a pair of corset-steels, the one of which is pr'ovided'with a series of fastenings embodying my invention,-and the other with a corresponding series of buttons or studs,with which said fastenings are shown engaged. Fig. 2 is a face View, upon an enlarged scale, of the improved fastening detached and button-head, showing the fastening before it is sprung over the button; and Fig. 3, alike view of like parts,

showing the fastening as it is sprung to pass over the button. Figs. 4 and 5 are views in elevation of the button,with the spring fastening in section in the two positions indicated for it in Figs. 2 and 3, the sections being upon the lines so a: and y y in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively.

A A are the corset-steels, having a series of my improved fastenings, B, and'the buttons or studs O,with which they engage, on them, respectively.

The buttons or studs 0 may be of the usual or any approved form and construction, and be secured to the steel which carries them .in any desired manner. They are here represented as made with a rounded head, over which the loop-fastening passes, and which aids in preventing the accidental disengagement of the fastening.

The loopfastenings B are each mainly composed of spring-wire made to form an elastic loop, I), that, upon suitable pressure being applied, will spring over the head of the button or stud, and subsequently contract to lock or hold the fastening in engagement with the button or stud. A convenient mode of construction is to bend and cross, as at c d, a piece of spring-wire to form a laterally expanding and contracting loop, I), with a finger-piece, s, at the outer end of the loop, and with the inner free terminal portions of the wire from the point where they cross at d extended to form shanks or trunnions eein line with each other, and arranged to project in opposite directions transversely to the length of the fastening. These shanks or trunnions e e engage in a free or loose manner with eyes or sockets f f in a metallic. or other holder, g,which is riveted or otherwise secured to the steel A, that carries the fastening.

Now, supposing the loop b normally to be of such a size that it will simply rest upon but not passover the head of the button or stud, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, then it will require pressure upon the fastening to spring it and expandihe loop and force it over the enlarged portion. of the button or stud, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, after passing which point it may readily be still further depressed to hug or loosely pass on to the shank of the button or stud, when the elastic loop b will contract again and hold the fastening in engagement with the button or stud. When required to ward to again spring the loop and aliow it to pass over the enlarged portion of the button or stud.

The finger-piece s of the fastening affords a ready means for working the fastening in or out over the button or stud to engage and dis engage it, as described, and as constructed gives increased tension to the spring loop-fastening, while theloosehinged connection of the wire, by its free ends, shanks,or trunnions c c, with the holder 9 both admits of the rocking of the wire portion of the fastening to pass it in or down over and from off the button or stud and of the sliding in or out of said free ends to permit of the expansion and contraction of the loop of the spring-fastening2 By the term corset-steels is implied any siitTener used in like manner, whether made of s eel or other material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The springwire loop-fastening Bforbut tons 0r studs, having an elastic loop, I), outer finger-piece, s, and shanks or trunnions 06 at its inner free ends, in combination with the holder g, having eyes or sockets f f, adapted to freely receive said shanks or trunnions within them, essentially as described.

2. The spring-wireloop-fastening B, for buttons or studs,composed of a piece of wire bent upon itself and crossed, as at c d, to form an elastic loop, I), finger-piece s, and shanks or trunnions e e at its free ends, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the corset-steels A A, of the buttons or studs 0, the spring- Wire loop-fastening B, having an elastic loop, I), fingerpicce s, and shanks or trunnions e e at its free ends, and the holder 9, having eyes or sockets ff, adapted to freely receive said shanks or trnnnions within them, essentially as specified.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Vito esses:

A. GREGORY, (J. SEDGWICK. 

